Jeethu Joseph’s ‘Neru’ is a solid courtroom drama woven around a blind rape survivor
- Trinity Auditorium
- Dec 23, 2023
- 1 min read
The film stars Mohanlal and Priyamani. It’s not great cinema, but it’s written well and it works.
A cop comes to a house to investigate a rape complaint. He is received by the survivor’s father, a businessman who runs a curio shop. The man is also a sculptor, who has taught his step-daughter his skills. Yes, the twenty-something survivor – who’s blind – is his second wife’s child, and he has two older sons from his earlier marriage. Neru has been written by director Jeethu Joseph and Santhi Mayadevi, and it is a pure writers’ movie. This is not something you watch for the craft, the staging. You watch it because each of those details about the father, the mother, the step-daughter, the sculpting comes together in a satisfactory knot. This is the kind of movie where the leading man, the loser-lawyer played by Mohanlal, is pitted against his rich and successful ex-girlfriend, a shark of a lawyer played by Priyamani. “Dramatic” doesn’t begin to describe the setup.
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